I Support The Protests
from the and-you-should-too dept
I support the protests.
I want to say this out loud. I support them.
If you support the protests, you should tell everyone you know that you support them.
Some of us have jobs, commitments, health conditions, or other circumstances that prevent us from marching with our fellow citizens in the streets. But for those of us who cannot march out of love for our country and to protect our fellow citizens from the criminal bullies who have stolen our federal government, we must feel free to tell everyone that we support the marchers.
Tell your boss at work. Tell your coworkers. Tell your neighbors. Tell your family. Let everyone know you support the marchers.
This does not make you a radical. It makes you part of the human race.
The marchers are defending constitutional government. They’re defending the rule of law. They’re defending your rights and mine. They’re standing up to criminals who wage unconstitutional war, who shoot citizens in the streets, who violate every principle this country was founded on.
Supporting them isn’t extreme. Silence is extreme. Silence is collaboration. Silence is choosing the side of the criminals.
You don’t have to march to matter. You don’t have to risk arrest to resist. You just have to stop pretending neutrality is an option when your government is killing people.
Say it: I support the protests.
Say it to everyone. Say it at work. Say it at home. Say it to strangers.
This is how majorities recognize they’re majorities. This is how isolated people realize they’re not alone. This is how the criminals learn there are more of us than there are of them.
I support the protests. So should you. And you should say so.
Out loud. To everyone.
That’s not radicalism. That’s citizenship.
Mike Brock is a former tech exec who was on the leadership team at Block. Originally published at his Notes From the Circus.
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Comments on “I Support The Protests”
Lex Iniusta Non Est Lex
I’ll take it a step further: I fully support nonviolent resistance to Trump’s tyranny, regardless of legality. Those who marched against racial segregation in the 20th Century were perfectly willing to break the law in order to call attention to the injustice of racial segregation and the cruelty of those seeking to enforce it. Protesters are blocking a road? Good for them! Making noise near a hotel hosting ICE agents? Yes, please! King and Parks did not care if they were arrested, for they knew that they were in the right.
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More to the point, King and Parks were prepared to be arrested for what they did. They were willing to put themselves on the front lines and take the heat so others wouldn’t necessarily have to do that. It also helped turn them into symbols of the Civil Rights Movement, since their arrests came by protesting unjust laws. As someone else put it here a few months back: People talk, martyrs scream.